Birds of Australia - Treasures from the collection - State Library of ...

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Neville W. Cayley became Australia’s best known
bird painter. In particular, his What Bird is That?
A Guide to the Birds of Australia long remained a
household fi xture ready to do duty on picnics or
bush walks.
21. Gregory M. Mathews (1876 –1949)
The Birds of Australia
Witherby & Co, London, 1910 –1927
Vol. 6, 1916 –17
John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland
RBF 598.2994 MAT V6
22. E.F. Robinson
Photograph album, October 1918
John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland
Acc 6673
This private album records local Brisbane birds
and animals and is typical of what a talented
amateur photographer could technically achieve.
23. Neville W. Cayley (1886 –1950)
The Fairy Wrens of Australia: blue birds
of happiness
Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1949
Australian Library of Art,
State Library of Queensland
RBHMON CAY
24. Penny Olsen
Feather and brush: three centuries
of Australian bird art
Melbourne, CSIRO, 2001
John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland
Q 598.0222 OLS
In 2002 this book won The Australian’s Award for
Excellence in Educational Publishing. Dr. Olsen is
a Visiting Fellow at ANU and in 1997 was awarded
the D.L. Serventy Medal for services to Ornithology.
25. Ruth Venner (1944– )
Alphabet Bird Book, 2000
Concertina artist’s book folded to form pockets
holding coloured photocopies
of Venner’s illuminated drawings of birds.
Australian Library of Art,
State Library of Queensland
RBHMON VEN
Ruth Venner came to Australia in 1972 and after
travelling the continent became South Australia’s
fi rst calligraphy teacher in 1982. Since 1991
she has lived in Northern New South Wales or
Queensland and has exhibited at the Tweed River
Regional Gallery, the Nimbin Regional Gallery, the
Gold Coast Art Gallery and the Redland Museum,
Cleveland. Her work has also been seen in Britain,
New Zealand, Germany, Canada and China. In
1996 and 1997 she was included in the Bokugei
Pictorial in Tokyo and in 1990, 1997 and 2006
visited China to share ideas on calligraphy with
artists and to exhibit her own work. She describes
herself as artist, calligrapher, poet and writer.
26. Mary Newsome (1936 – )
Bird colours on creek scrolls, 2002
Artist’s book published Villa Modeste
Workshop, Melbourne
Based on the artist’s book, A Creeky Labyrinth.
ed. 2/20
Australian Library of Art,
State Library of Queensland
RBHMON NEW
Mary Newsome lives in Melbourne but has travelled
and studied in London and Paris. She exhibits
with Gallery 101, Melbourne. Her work is also in
the collections of Monash University Rare Books
Collection, the State Library of Victoria and the Art
Galleries of New South Wales, Queensland and
South Australia. In 2005 she won the Southern
Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award.
Newsome became interested in artists’ books while
in Paris during 1994.
27. Kylie Stillman (1975 – )
Dusky robin, 2004
Artist’s book
One paper sculpture, carved into book
mounted on white board within a wooden
frame on verso of frame: Code: KS 5023
Australian Library of Art,
State Library of Queensland
RBHMON STI
Kylie Stillman was born in Mordialloc, trained at
RMIT and still lives in Victoria. She also exhibits
in Sydney, Tasmania and New Zealand. In 2006
an Australia Council grant enabled her to use the
Council’s Studio in Milan. Her work is also held in the
special collections of Fisher Library of the University
of Sydney, Macquarie Bank and the State Library of
Victoria. For Stillman this book’s carved – away text
creates a tone which mimics the absent creature’s
markings and plumage which for her is the opposite
of illustrations in bird watching manuals. Hence the
bird’s absence frees the viewer to have a personal
interpretation of her artwork. She is represented by
Utopia Art, Sydney.
28. Prepared Albert’s lyrebird male
(Menura alberti)
On loan from the Queensland Museum
Named for Prince Albert (Queen Victoria’s
husband), this species is confi ned to south – east
Queensland and northern NSW. Its tail feathers
are less developed than the Superb lyrebird and it
inhabits a smaller geographical range.